Cast & creator
Kamel El Basha
Best known for Mo, Culprits, Palestine 36
Kamel El Basha is a Palestinian actor of screen and stage, theater director, play-writer and producer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s. He gained critical acclaim in 2017 when he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor (male) during the 74th Venice International Film Festival for his role as Yasser Abdallah Salameh in The Insult by the Lebanese film director Ziad Doueiri. It was El Basha's first major role on screen, although he had appeared in a number of theatrical productions, actually also directing some of them. He is the former artistic director of the Palestinian National Theater in Jerusalem from 2007 to 2011 and the artistic director of Quds Art since 2012.
Also known as: كامل الباشا, Kamel el-Bacha
21
film credits
8
television credits
28
2014–2026 · acting roles
6.9
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (29)
Showing 29 of 29 credits
Mo
Uncle Ali
2022
Culprits
Youssef Mizouni / Cracker
2023
Palestine 36
Abu Rabab
2025
Into the Dark
2021
Wedding, Berlin
The Insult
Yasser Abdallah Salameh
2017
Indigenous
Ibrahim
2026
The Land's Oath
Narrator
2026
Room 207
2022
Dawa'i El-Safar
إبراهيم
2024
Rogue Arrows
2018
House of Gods
Sheikh Mohammad Al-Hamedi
2024
Asad
محروس
2026
Conversation with the Sea
2026
I Know You Can Hear Me
Salim
2025
Palestine Islands
Younès
2023
Hamza - Chasing the Ghost Chasing Me
2022
Thank You for Banking with Us
Uncle
2025
The Reports on Sarah and Saleem
Abu Ibrahim
2018
Huda's Salon
Doctor
2022
Our Males and Females
The Father
2023
Love, Theft and Other Entanglements
2015
The Translator
Professor Raed
2021
An Orange from Jaffa
Farouk
2024
My Father's Scent
Omar
2026
I'll Get Back to You
Abu Bassam
2025
Curfew
2020
Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine
Director
2014